The poetics of a plague : a haiku diary : the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic / Sandy Jeffs.
Publisher: North Geelong, VIC : Spinifex Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiii, 281 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925950366
- Poetics of a plague, a haiku diary : the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic
- 821.4 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 821.4 JEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90298 |
The 2020-2021 Covid-19 Pandemic What was it like to live in Melbourne during the 2020-2021 lockdowns? Capturing the day-to-day struggles of lockdown, the daily news, Dan Andrews' 11am morning press conferences, the tensions between Victorians and the rest of Australia, Trump's chaotic America, the conspiracy theories that circulated and battling her own mental health, Sandy Jeffs takes us through the whirlwind of events in imaginative haiku poems. These became her sanity while the world spiralled into madness. First wave fear is back. Before an end was in sight now there is no end. Trying to make sense of an unravelling world that is downright mad. This is not only a book about the pandemic but also about political wins and political failures. From Dan Andrews to Donald Trump. Each day brings news that creates despair or joy: the pandemic numbers and the voting numbers side by side. And as the world is in the grip of COVID madness, sanity is found in poetry.
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